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After Twitter storm, New York Instances and new rent half methods

On Tuesday afternoon, the New York Instances introduced that it had employed Quinn Norton, a journalist and an essayist recognized for her work at Wired journal, because the editorial board’s lead opinion author on expertise.

On Tuesday night, Norton tweeted that she would now not be becoming a member of the Instances.

Between the 2 statements, a social media storm had erupted, with Norton on the middle of it, due to her use of slurs on Twitter and her friendship with Andrew Auernheimer, who gained infamy as an Web troll going by the title “weev.” Auernheimer now works for the Every day Stormer, a neo-Nazi web site.